Value in Health Regional Issues
Value in Health Regional Issues, ISPOR's journal for regional advancements in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), is a peer-reviewed, MEDLINE-indexed journal that publishes applied research using HEOR methods to examine health systems, policies, and patient populations in all geographic regions. The journal's current impact factor score is 1.4.
The editors are interested in receiving original contributions of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions, health policy analyses, and health equity research that examine the impact on regional health policy, translate knowledge across countries, and demonstrate the broader implications to other regions.
Aims & Scope
Aims
Value in Health aims to be a leading source of new methods, best practice guidelines, and innovative research in the field of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).
Value in Health aims to publish papers that expand the frontiers of HEOR science and have a direct impact on the methods used in HEOR and the evidence on value used in healthcare decision making around the world.
Scope
Value in Health publishes a wide range of article types that contribute to our aims, including:
Original theoretical, conceptual and empirical research in HEOR. Our principal interest is in research that contributes to and extends the way value in healthcare is defined and measured, including (but not limited to):
(a) methods for the economic evaluation of drugs and other healthcare technologies;
(b) outcomes research to strengthen the methods and evidence available to reflect patient and societal perspectives on effectiveness and value.
Innovative and high-impact applications of HEOR methods with interest and relevance beyond the specific country and disease area.
Good Practices Reports: Value in Health publishes ISPOR’s Good Practices Reports that identify best and emerging practices in a wide range of areas within HEOR.
Systematic Reviews: The Editors welcome systematic reviews of any aspect of HEOR. These should go beyond describing a given body of work by synthesizing and critically reviewing the literature and drawing out lessons for HEOR methods and practice. These papers should review empirical studies consistent with the methods outlined by the Cochrane Collaboration and PRISMA.
Health Policy Analyses: Analysis and commentary on health policy issues with global relevance to the pursuit of a world where healthcare is effective, efficient, and affordable for all.
The ISPOR journal portfolio consists of Value in Health and Value in Health Regional Issues. For more information and detailed guidance about the article types and formatting requirements for Value in Health, please consult the journal’s Instructions for Authors.
Transition to Open Access
On January 1, 2025, Value in Health Regional Issues will become a fully gold open access title.
Why gold open access?
Open access is an integral part of a commitment to collaborative, inclusive, and transparent research. Crucially, it brings many benefits for you as an author, including its ability to spark new interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborative research. Other benefits include:
- Increased visibility for your paper: When your article is published gold open access, it is immediately and permanently accessible to a wider audience, triggering the possibility of more readers, downloads, citations, and impact. And when you publish gold open access with ISPOR and Elsevier, your work is automatically discoverable on the Value in Health Regional Issues and ScienceDirect websites, with 19 million unique monthly visitors. What’s more, your article is indexed and shared as widely as possible: our gold open access journals are featured in prominent databases such as Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Web of Science, and PubMed Central.
- Drive science equity: Open access promotes science equity by making scientific knowledge universally accessible. In 2023, 500K+ researchers across 190+ countries and territories published open access with Elsevier, making their articles globally available.
What happens next?
Watch this space for future announcements, including when authors submitting to Value in Health Regional Issues will be asked to pay an article publishing charge after peer review and acceptance. This will cover the cost of publishing your article and making it freely and permanently available.
We look forward to receiving your submission and to helping you share your research with the world.
Open Access Publishing Options
Value in Health Regional Issues authors have 2 options to publish their research in ISPOR journals:
| Gold Open Access | Subscription | |
| Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. | Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups Elsevier’s access programs. | |
| An open access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder. | No open access publication fee. | |
Your publication choice will have no effect on the peer-review process or acceptance of your submission.
25% Discount for ISPOR Members
Did you know that ISPOR members receive a 25% discount on open access publishing fees? The cost of membership more than pays for itself for researchers who maintain or become ISPOR members and expect to publish at least 1 open access article a year in an ISPOR journal (ie, Value in Health and/or Value in Health Regional Issues).
